Japanese company which we want to cherish most

This is a title of the book which Professor Koji Sakamoto of Hosei University wrote.
Would anybody please translate Japanese into English and send it to the world?
Here is the true Japanese-style management!
I am weak in English, but I want to convey the main point of this book.

Professor Sakamoto explains that Corporate management is "a mission and responsibility for five".

1. Make employees and the family happy.
If employees are happy, company can offer the service that is good for customers.

2. Make employees of subcontractors happy.
Company must not force a deficit on subcontractors.
The organization making ends meet on sacrifice of somebody is wrong.

3. Make customers happy.
Raising the satisfaction of employees and subcontractors leads to raising customer satisfaction.

4. Make community happy, and revitalize community.
Through daily corporate activities, local residents are proud of the company.

5. Finally, happiness of stockholders born naturally.
If company achieves the happiness of employee, subcontract, customer, and community, The happiness of stockholders occurs necessarily.

Do you think it to be a pretty word?
But in Japan, there are a lot of such companies.
Introduced companies are so splendid that I keep back tears while reading a book.
Vol. 2 is released in Japan and is going to follow still more now.

Link to a Japanese edition.

日本でいちばん大切にしたい会社 日本でいちばん大切にしたい会社2 坂本 光司

Unfinished Beauty

I think the Japanese tends to prefer unfinished thing to a perfect thing culturally.
You may seem unexpectedly, because Japan export products of high quality.

I introduce two Japanese famous books.

One is a book about the tea ceremony.

"It is essentially a workship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life." (The Book of Tea)

"The Book of Tea" was written by Okakura Kakuzo in the early 20th century.

Another is my favorite book "Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness)".
This book was written by Kenko Yoshida in the 14th century.

"In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth."

The tendency in search of the unfinished beauty emerges for gardening.
It is Japanese rock garden.
Representative case is The Karesansui garden in Ryoan-ji Temple.
In this garden, Stones spread in the place where should pour water.
The person who sees a garden can understand true beauty only by feeling water in a stone.

I heard that Sagrada Familia (Barcelona) might be completed in around 20 years.
I regret this a little.
This may be a Japanese way of thinking.

25 regrets when we die

In my Japanese Blog, the article that I introduced the book which the end-of-life expert wrote is being read well.
For anyone, the thought is same: we do not want to die with regretting in one way or another.
It may be almost impossible to greet our last moments without a piece of regret.
But I want to think deeply about these 25 points at least.

1. Not having valued health
2. Not having given up smoking
3. Not having displayed living will
4. Having lost sight of a meaning of remedy
5. Not having done anything he(or she) wanted
6. Not having lived out a dream
7. Having dyed a hand into an evil deed
8. Having spent life swung around in feelings
9. Not having been gentle to others
10. Not having doubt that oneself was No.1.
11. Not having decided disposition of inheritance
12. Not having thought about funeral service
13. Not having returned to the hometown
14. Not having eaten a delicious thing
15. Not having spared time for a hobby
16. Not having traveled in the place he(or she) wanted to go
17. Not having met the person who wanted to meet
18. Not having done unforgettable romance
19. Not having married
20. Not having brought up a child
21. Not having married a child off
22. Not having left behind one's proof that lived
23. Not having been got over life and a problem of the death
24. Not having known God's instructions
25. Not having informed "thank you" for an important person

Life is determined by the person we meet.

Japanese translation of Buffett's biography "The Snowball" is released at last next month.
I took a look at a thick book (English ver.) once again.

I think the key sentence is "Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill."
There is a mention that "Snowball" is "what kind of friends you accumulate.".
"Snowball" is a friend, not money.

My 20's life was blessed very much.
I got this happiness not by my talent, but by a lot of friends' help.

"Life is determined by the person we meet."
This is my motto.
As a sign of gratitude for my friends, I want to become the man who can help the person whom I will meet.

Can we predict Future?

We are mortal, so we dislike that we think about the future seriously.

When we predict the future by limited knowledge and experience, it becomes uncertain.

The future expectation is influenced by whether our present life is happy or unhappy.

Though we can't judge even a current event definitely, can we expect the future?

Nonetheless we investor continues predicting the future.
Will slight hope be "intuition"?

Investment and Dignity

Speculation and investment, day-trader and long-term investor, concentrated investment and diversified investments, etc.
Generally, the latter is considered to be a more intellectual act than the former.
Because higher return is provided more safely, but ...

In securities market, somebody's profit are inevitably-linked to somebody's lose.
For example, as for the profit to be provided through investment to the commodity market, there may be even possibility taking somebody's life away as well as somebody's money.

Therefore, regardless of investment technique, dignity is lack.

The fall of investment bank by this financial crisis clarified that the profit and the prosperity that were provided abandoning dignity are only temporary things.

Sooner or later we will lose both the wealth and the happiness if we lose dignity as the person.

In comparison with it, the salary by our working is beautiful.
The money that somebody understands our work and pays arrives at our hands.
Unlike a securities market, joy and satisfaction have economic value and are changed with money.

Even if no matter how much I succeeded in investment, I will try to never forget the importance of working.

Don't depend on luck.

Luck is sort of vague. But there is surely it.

I don't want to depend on luck if possible.
Because I feel that Depending on luck seems to be resignation to myself.
I believe myself and want to make an effort than I pursue luck.

I think that person with heart to believe oneself is a genius.

Wealth and Happiness

If the person thinking "Money makes me happiness." gets money, he (or she) can never find happiness.
Because, even if his property increase, his human value doesn't change.

I think that our happiness is connected with our work rather than our wealth.
Job satisfaction will decide our happiness or unhappiness.

In addition, money gained by our work is beautiful.
The money that somebody understands our work and paid arrives at our hand.
Unlike stock market, joy and satisfaction have economic value and are changed for money.

I don't want to put too much effort on saving money on investment.

Do you look for the right timing?

As for the investment, a timing is important.
However, unfortunately we do not understand whether this timing is good or bad, and we will understand it later.
It is important that the courage which we believe ourselves and take a step forward.

The same could be said of our life.

We don't have much time to make many excuses, for example "I'll wait a bit longer" and "I can't do until I take care of this matter.".
The life is limited.

We must carefully compare in our minds that we might hope to make our principal work.
And if we decide which is of the greatest value, we should renounce our other interests and devote ourselves to that one thing only.

Bet on intuition?

Yoshiharu Habu says in his book "70% of the intuition is right".

The intuition is working unconsciously, but I think that enormous data based on knowledge and experience are handled in our brain.

On the other hand, we can't often give an answer without intuition even if we think desperately.
It may be caused by the shortage of knowledge and experience.

If we pursue the things that we love, our intuition will work definitely.

The word of wisdom by the great man

"Obey intuition, if you want to create." Leonardo da Vinci

"Inspiration is born, if you run a risk and bet on intuition." Taro Okamoto